Is The Big Sleep (1939) CHUD or WOKE?
chudrank score: 47 / 100 (roughly neutral). 0 is CHUD (right-wing), 100 is WOKE (left-wing).
Book by Raymond Chandler, 1939.
6 votes: 50% WOKE, 50% CHUD.
Why: Hard-boiled detective novel; no clear politics
Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, which involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder